Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.
I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
If you control your distribution, you control your image.
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment. " I feel like people go to movies for more than that.
One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.
And wages - we'll see the end of this decline we're having. The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. That's got to stop. We've got to start seeing rising wages and job growth.